The Light Between Oceans
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After four harrowing years on the Western Front, Tom Sherbourne returns to Australia and takes a job as the lighthouse keeper on Janus Rock, an isolated island nearly half a day’s trip from the coast. To this remote outpost, where the supply boat arrives only once a season, Tom brings his young, bold, and loving wife, Isabel.
Years pass, marked by two miscarriages and a stillbirth. The grieving Isabel, hearing a baby’s cries on the wind, discovers a small boat washed ashore carrying a dead man and a living infant. Tom, a man of meticulous records and moral principles tested by war, wants to report the discovery immediately. But Isabel sees the child as a “gift from God.” Against Tom’s judgment, they claim the baby as their own, naming her Lucy.
When Lucy is two, Tom and Isabel return to the mainland, confronting a world that reminds them of others. Their choice, made in grief and desperation, has irrevocably altered lives, leaving one person devastated.
Publication date
August 23, 2016
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4.4/5
Print length
416
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English
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Pocket Books
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